Charlie Kelly (businessman)

Charles Richard "Charlie" Kelly (born 1945) was an early pioneer in the development of modern mountain bicycles.

During the late sixties and early seventies Kelly was a roadie for a San Francisco rock band, The Sons of Champlin. When the band broke up in 1977, Kelly turned his attention to his passion for bicycling and "klunker" bikes he and his friends were constructing from old frames and taking off road.

Kelly attended Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California, at the foot of Mount Tamalpais.

He was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1988 and currently is considered an expert at the tricky art of piano moving. Though decidedly more distant than during mtb's early years, CK can still be found from time to time in Dirt Rag magazine.

Pro Golfer.

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